Re: [Chicken-users] Does Chicken garbage collect unreferenced symbols?

2009-08-24 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
On 23 Aug 2009, at 10:38 pm, John Cowan wrote: The idea is to speed up string lookups. Currently the a-list maps strings to values, which means I must use assoc to search it. If it mapped symbols to values instead, I could use the faster assq. I'd rather intern the strings once and have done

[Chicken-users] Re: Chicken fails to build on Windows (mingw)

2009-08-24 Thread felix
Hi, Fadi! Hm... how did you invoke make? Did you pass "PLATFORM=mingw"? > > Out of curiosity, why is Chicken using these functions instead of the > standard C rand/srand ? There shouldn't be any difference > functionality-wise AFAIK. Because they provide better randomness. Originally it was th

[Chicken-users] Re: Chicken fails to build on Windows (mingw)

2009-08-24 Thread Fadi Moukayed
> Hm... how did you invoke make? Did you pass "PLATFORM=mingw"? Yes, I used the following build command, nothing special really: mingw32-make PREFIX=c:/chicken PLATFORM=mingw C_COMPILER_OPTIMIZATION_OPTIONS="-O2 -pipe" Anyway, I think I found where the problem lies: Line 86 in extras.scm contai